To the warm-bloods he is known as “Smoke Frog,” for his name glyph appears to be the head of a frog, on its side, wreathed in smoke. However to the Lizardmen he is referred to as “Fire is Born,” for he was spawned just as the ancient empire of the Lizardmen erupted in the flames of war. Sijak K’ak was spawned during the final calm directly before the Great Catastophe, and has served Jatzom Kuh as his general and commander in the field ever since. As a young saurus war-chief, he witnessed the fall of Mutal as he retreated from the city limits, commanding the rear-guard column of the escaping Slann. Through the centuries his fellow saurus spawn-kin were whittled away until only he now remains. Sijak K’ak has achieved many victories alongside the Jade Host against the would-be intruders of the jungles, including the rat-spawn and the vile elven slavers of the northern continent. However, despite his great tactical intellect, on the battlefield he is less of a leader to his forces and more of a giant, brutal killing machine. This is especially true in recent years, as he now rarely rides into battle on anything less than the most savage carnosaurs raised by the skinks of the Beast Caste in the pens and stables of Mutal. His current mount is named Tajal, meaning “Torch,” aptly named for such an engine of destruction.

...As far as the model himself goes, the saurus rider is magnetized so he can be removed from his mount, just in case he was killed before the carnosaur itself went down. Eventually I will make the rider his own ground base so he can run with the infantry (though his giant tail will make that difficult in a ranked formation).

The back banners are also removable (magnetized). The elaborate back banner will be used whenever he is run as an Oldblood, but if I go with the cheaper Scar Veteran option then the little stone-nub will take its place.

The original Jungle Fortress was built back in late 2012 out of straight up floral foam (first posted in this thread back in 2016 though); so far it has survived three moves mostly intact, though on the last one it received some major damages...

The towers might look mostly intact, but that is only because I had to go through and stack up all the fallen bricks (90% stacked in this picture). Since they had the structurally integrity of a game of jenga, I decided to repair them with liberal amounts of glue and toothpicks.

After a few hours of work, the fortress is looking much better!

I also went ahead and added some texture to most of the basing itself. The whole structure is in need of a new coat of paint, plus one or two missing bricks.

Here it is with the two sets of doors which I am considering to magnetize:

Yup most of the bricks are all floral foam (company Oasis, pic here). It works really well; the wet foam is easy to cut but tends to flake off due to the first coat of paint. Conversly the dry foam is sturdier but more difficult to cut into smaller chunks. If I had to do it again though I would probably make the walls and the towers out of more solid pieces to provide more structural integrity.

Those siege towers are pretty cool. Will you decorate them faction-specific or will they stay generic to be used for all of them?

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I decided to make these two faction specific for my Lustrian Bretonnians this time:

They were very quick and easy to make compared to the last one (having the front of the tower as a solid piece helped) but I also wish I had made them all taller. I think if they had a second level it would have been better, so that a small troop of archers would site on top while the combaty troops could huddle underneath them until the drawbridge drops. Maybe next time...

I want to do some Lizardmen specific siege towers someday, but if I do they will have to be on the backs of some plastic toy brachiosaurs. Maybe with some stegadon howdah bits!

Saw this thing in one of my local game stores. They have a ton of Star Trek and Star Wars ships (and other World War model planes) hanging from the ceiling, and the other day while I was exploring I came across this beauty! It was huge, I think it was almost 3 feet tall!